Historical Fiction

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  Carthage: A Novel
  Ross Leckie - Paperback - Canongate
  This work completes the trilogy of historical novels that began with 'Hannibal' and continued with 'Scipio'. Carthage tells of a great city's utter eradication under the rise of Rome, but its chief characters would have wished it otherwise.
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  Child Of The Phoenix
  Barbara Erskine - Paperback - Harper
  Princess Eleyne is brought up by her Welsh nurse to support the Celtic cause against the English aggressor. Her second sight is marred by the inability to identify time and place so she is powerless to avert forthcoming tragedy.
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  Caligula
  Douglas Jackson - Paperback - Corgi
  Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, the third Roman Emperor, is better known by another name: Caligula, a name synonymous with decadence, cruelty and madness. His reign was marked by excess, huge building projects, and the largest gladiatorial battles Rome was ever to see.
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  The Causeway
  Jim Pinnells - Paperback - Matador
  Set in Italy during thr Napoleonic Wars, 'The Causeway' confronts the reality of religious barbarity, revolutionary violence and the frustration endured by women seeking to determine their own destiny.
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  Charlemagne And Roland: A Romance
  Allan Massie - Paperback - Phoenix
  In this third book in his celebrated Dark Ages series, Allan Massie recreates the lives of Charlemagne and his nephew Roland. Narrated once again by Michael Scott, a character in his own right, the story brings to life not only their legendary battles but also the lives and loves of the people who fought in them.
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  Caligula
  Douglas Jackson - Hardback - Bantam
  Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, the third Roman Emperor, is better known by another name: Caligula, a name synonymous with decadence, cruelty and madness. His reign was marked by excess, huge building projects, and the largest gladiatorial battles Rome was ever to see.
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  The Captive Queen Of Scots
  Jean Plaidy - Paperback - Arrow
  Scotland has been torn apart by civil war & the young & passionate Catholic Mary Queen of Scots is in the hands of her enemies. Under duress, Mary abdicates in favour of her son, James VI, & fleeing to England she boldly seeks refuge from her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. But Elizabeth has never trusted Mary, & has her imprisoned.
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  Castle Dangerous
  Walter Scott - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
  Set in 1306 during the Wars of Independence, English heiress Lady Augusta de Berkely has promised to marry Sir John de Walton if he can defend the strategically vital Castle of Douglas against Robert the Bruce and Sir James Douglas for a year and a day.
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  Count Robert Of Paris
  Walter Scott - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
  Set during the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Alexius Comnenus, this novel focuses on the arrival of the first Crusaders in 1096. During the oath-taking ceremony on the eve of the Crusade, the haughty Count Robert insults the Emperor by seating himself on the imperial throne.
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  Clara
  Janice Galloway - Paperback - Vintage
  Janice Galloway's new novel is based on the life of Clara Schumann - 19th century concert pianist and composer, editor and teacher, friend of Brahms - who was also the wife of Robert Schumann, the mother of his eight children, and the woman who cared for him through crippling mental illness.